Creating a point or vertex at an exact x,y location (absolute x,y)

Absolute X,Y lets you create a point or vertex using an exact x,y location. For example, you might use an absolute x,y to create a bird's nest in an animal habitat database with x,y coordinates obtained from a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit.

You can specify the location as a longitude-latitude coordinate
pair, a Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) location, a
U.S. National Grid (USNG) location, or a Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate. If you are entering a coordinate pair, you see two boxes on the dialog box, compared with one box for grid locations.